Guilty: The former Marine who killed “American Sniper” Chris Kyle was found guilty of murder yesterday in a Texas court and sentenced to life in prison. The mentally disturbed Eddie Routh had claimed he was not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury didn’t go for it.

Routh was drunk, on drugs, and having delusions two years ago when Kyle and Chad Littlefield took him to a shooting range to spend time with him and try to help him. He shot both of them to death. In its verdict the jury decided Routh’s delusions did not mean he didn’t know that killing the two men was wrong.

The case got a lot of attention, in part because the trial was going on while the movie “American Sniper” about Kyle was making fortunes at the box office. Television news, in particular, can’t resist a story that comes with movie clips.

Nation: The “veto era” of the Obama administration began yesterday with the president’s rejection of a Republican bill to move ahead with the Keystone XL oil pipeline. By vetoing, the president is reserving for himself the power to make a decision on whether to build the pipe. It’s his most major veto so far as he confronts a Republican majority in both houses of Congress.

>George Zimmerman will not face federal civil rights charges for shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, the Justice Department announced. Prosecutors said they didn’t have the evidence to formally accuse Zimmerman of committing a hate crime or intentionally depriving Martin of his civil rights. A statement by a top civil rights official said, “Our decision not to pursue federal charges does not condone the shooting that resulted in the death of Trayvon Martin and is based solely on the high legal standard applicable to these cases.”

World: Local officials say as many as 124 people have been killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan. A blizzard dropped up to three feet of snow in some areas and the avalanches buried homes in several provinces.

Nobody Sent: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is surprised to face a re-election. Emanuel needed 50 percent of the vote and got just over 45. His popularity in particular with black voters has slipped. His opponent in the runoff is County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, a sleeper candidate who took a surprising 33.9 percent of the vote. The old joke in Chicago politics is, “We don’t want nobody nobody sent,” but it appears they might.

ISIS Recruits: The British government now believes that three teenage girls who left home and boarded a jet for Turkey last week have crossed over into an area of Syria occupied by Islamic State forces. Investigators believe they may have been recruited online by Aqsa Mahmood, a Scottish teenager who left home in 2013, joined the Islamic State, and married one of its fighters.

Hundreds of young men have left Europe to join the Islamic State crusade, but now the organization is recruiting female companionship. The three girls from London, ages 15 and 16, are expected to be quickly married and enter a strict Islamic domestic life.

Train Crash: Three of the four rail cars in yesterday’s Metrolink crash in Oxnard, Calif. had energy absorption systems that kept them from crushing. Twenty-eight people were injured yesterday, but no one was killed. After a crash in 2005 that killed 11 people, Metrolink sank a lot of money into safety features, apparently with great success. The 54-year-old driver of a pickup pulling a trailer on the tracks, causing the accident, said he made a wrong turn. He’s been charged with felony hit and run.

Party’s Over: Four Wesleyan University students have been arrested and charged in connection with the weekend party that sent 11 people to the hospital after taking the drug Molly. One of the students has been charged with 16 counts of illegally obtaining or supplying drugs. It’s shocking. They looked so perfect in the application essay someone wrote for them.

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